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From: mrh@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Hannah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder _10.2_ is on Genie NOW!!
Message-ID: <2176@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 16:40:30 EST
Article-I.D.: Shasta.2176
Posted: Thu Oct 29 16:40:30 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 01:49:13 EST
References: <377UD069225@NDSUVM1> <172@ut-emx.UUCP> <297@ur-tut.UUCP> <218NETOPRDC@NCSUVM>
Organization: Stanford University
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Summary: long packet kermit

In article <218NETOPRDC@NCSUVM>, NETOPRDC@NCSUVM.BITNET (Daniel Carr) writes:
...
> Personally speaking, if I think it's better that 9.4, i will pay for it.
> If I don't, i'll trash it.  Kermit and other free comm packages suit my
> needs just fine.  True, Xmodem protocol is definitely faster than
> Kermit, but Kermit isn't bogged down with "bells and whistles".  I would
...
   I question whether Xmodem is faster than Kermit. Kermit has been
extended to allow for long packets (up to 9K in size I believe). I've
been using VersaTerm 3.1 which can use the long packets and the performance
at 9600 baud with 1024 byte packets is approximately 2X that of standard
Kermit. Binaries may be a different story but we don't have 8 bit lines
so we can't use XMODEM anyway.

David Gelphman